THE EFFECT OF USING TRANSITION – ACTION – DETAILS (TAD) STRATEGY TOWARD STUDENTS’ SKILL IN WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT OF THE SECOND YEAR OF SMAN 1 KAMPAR TIMUR KAMPAR REGENCY

Abstract

Based on the writer’ preliminary study, found that some of the students are not able to write narrative paragraph. This problem was caused by some factors. For Example, some of the students are not able to write good tenses in a sentence based on the types of text and not able to do develop narrattive paragrpah. So, the writer was interested to carry out a research about this problem. The aim of the research is to find out the significant effect in using Transition – Action – Details (TAD) Strategy toward students’ writing narrative paragraph skill at the second year of SMAN 1 Kampar Timur of Kampar Regency. There are three formulations of the problem in this research that are how is the students’ writing narrative paragraph skill taught by using Transition – Action – Details (TAD) Strategy , how is the students’ writng narrative paragraph skill taught witout using Transition – Action – Details (TAD) Strategy, and is there any significant effect on students’ writing narrative paragraph skill between the class who is taught by using Transition – Action – Details (TAD) Strategy and the class who is taught without using Transition – Action – Details (TAD) Strategy. This Research was conducted in SMAN 1 Kampar Timur of Kampar Regency. The subject of the Research was the secon years students of SMAN 1 Kampar Timur, and the object of the research was the effect of using Transition – Action – Details (TAD) Strategy. The research was included to Quasi – Experiment. The population of the research was all the second year students. The total Number of the second year students was 298 students. The writer used Cluster Random Sampling that take two classess as the sample: XI IPA 2 consisted of 30 students as the control class, and XI IPA 4 consisted of 30 students as the experimental class. So, the total number of the sample was 60 students. To analyze the data, the writer used t-test formula by using SPSS 17 Version. After analyzing the data, the writer found that the significant effect of Transition – Action – Details (TAD) Strategy to improve the skill of writing narrative paragraph of the second year students SMAN 1 Kampar Timur, where was T obtained 14.409. Because of t obtained (14.409) < t table at significant level 5% (2.00) and 1 % (2.65) it means that the Null Hypothesis (H o ) was rejected and the Alternative Hypothesis (H a ) was accepted